skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> “If you ask people how many books they read in the past year, they’ll say four. Or two,” she says.

This is so sad. Depending on length and style, I might read 2 books in a month. Or maybe not really sad, because not everyone might get the enjoyment out of books that I do, but I’ve loved reading my whole life, being known to walk to school/the store/within school/etc. while reading (I very rarely do that, nowadays, it’s a bit weird for an almost 40-year-old man. Though the last time was not much more than a year ago, the bus ride was over, but the book was too gripping, so I continued reading while walking from the bus stop)
Well... Apple do have Swift Playgrounds.

And SwiftUI is about as easy as it gets!

Although using Xcode and setting yourself up in the App Store still requires some understanding of arcane settings and Xcode IDE familiarity :-)
I guess this was the Trojan horse of brexit. Market it as “let’s get away from EU regulation so we can do good regulation (and racism)”, and actually mean “let get away from EU so we can do bad regulation (and racism)”.

I’m often very critical of EU regulation so I sympathise with the first bit (less so the appalling “no refugees” racism shit). For example, Sweden used to have a public housing system where subsidised public housing wasn’t just for poor people. Then the private landlords took the state to EU court crying about unfair competition etc etc and won, and now public housing has to be run like a company which contributes to higher rents. The same process was repeated for most public services. Some of that was the trend at the time and would probably have happened anyway, but it sucks that it’s enforced from Brussels.

EU does mandate a particular model of economy of its member states, one which relies heavily on market solutions to most problems. Using annoyance with the ongoing crumbles of every public service as an excuse to do more of the same is a stroke of evil genius.
They are still using DUV for that. It will likely take at least a decade to develop EUV independently, which is needed for smaller process nodes.
There's no collapsed tunnels. It's the same technology, just a smaller surface area / volume of displacement due to not needing exhaust mitigation.
It's simple: if working for 8 hours with many people is not a problem for the ventilation system, then sleeping with less (residential) people should be no issue at all.
It helps me to pop an l-theanine if I’m over-caffeinated.
The Gemini Protocol
i feel the same

for now matrix seems to be the closest to this experience (but still not quite)
Indeed, Supercard was the Hypercard option with colour!

And amazingly seems to still be around!

https://supercard.us/
Good news, not using windows is free.
Everyone keeps beating this 7nm drum but ignored the fact it’s 7nm performing the equiv of a cpu from like 7-10 years ago…
And fine tuning datasets will be compressed and sent rather than the whole model
I'm gonna go with Occam's razor. There's no real goal here other than political pandering.
> This is a ridiculous exaggeration.

No it is not.

Given the current tuition rates of state colleges, and factoring the average increases in tuition over the past 10-15 years, it is expected that public universities will have an average 4 year tuition of over 300k in 18 years.

Note that some private universities are already at this price!
FAQ: https://geminiprotocol.net/docs/faq.gmi
By that justification you can skip the French/German stick with English and study at better universities in the UK.

Its not free but $25k a year for four years sure beats that 300-400k estimate.
> You can buy a version of <insert product here> from Walmart at 1/2 price of a "normal" retailer. Does that mean every "normal" retailer is actually a luxury goods dealer?

What percent of that retailer's products does that comparison apply to?

If it's more than half then yeah that's probably a luxury goods dealer.
I wonder what the distribution looks like. I hardly read at all, and then will binge 3-5 books. So, fewer than 10 per year.

A friend of mine reads two books per week.

Maybe most are between. Or maybe not.
Intel has bought all the high NA EUV ASML produces until the first quarter 2025 by the way. TSMC is not the west, TSMC is TSMC.

Also China has started investing heavily in domestic AI chips. Huawei's Ascend is roughly comparable to the A100 I think, but you shouldn't forget that this has caused a flurry of GPU as a service company to pop up outside of China that serve GPU compute to Chinese customers.

The best this kind of legislation does is make it a bit more expensive for China to access GPU compute. It's worth remembering that a lot of tech was banned from Iran, but that never stopped Iranians from getting any of those components. It just made them twice as expensive.

https://www.trendforce.com/presscenter/news/20231211-11957.h...
The first thing I would love to see is Borges. Specifically, his Library of Babel.

I love listening to Borges audiobooks while on heavy doses of mushrooms, so I have a pretty vivid visualization of all of them already, but it would be great to see them so I could point at the screen and be like "whoa, yup, that's it!"
Visual Basic for DOS is AWESOME. I briefly used it last year to make a Wordle clone for Dos.

The 3D buttons in a TUI, event-based programming in DOS, the rich help system… just awesome.
Nnno. You start from their experience and give the benefit of the doubt. As someone who’s been in software for 12 years, I don’t want to talk about writing algorithms. I want to talk about how to motivate 150 engineers to actually write code correctly or inspire a technical initiative.
Forgot to mention that it must be completely silent.
> In the long run we are all dead

Arguably, being left alive with nothing is worse than dead.
There is clearly a degree of abstraction-- consider you can make up some game which creates words the LLM has never seen before and assigns them meaning, then ask the LLM to reason about them within the logic of the game and it will do so at least somewhat successfully.

(much worse than it does stuff it's seen before, for sure, but that it does it at all shows there is some abstraction)

Now if that qualifies as "reasoning" is another question, but it may be a metaphysical one with little value in making the world a better place. :P

Whatever we call it there clearly is some amount of emergent abstraction in the models which is useful for at least some applications (if many fewer than the hype suggests). Can that abstraction be isolated from the factual data that went in to construct it? If so then perhaps we could have smaller models with better performance or construct ways to amplify that "operating over abstraction" until it did meet whatever bar you'd require to call it "reasoning", or at least become more useful along the way.
If the CPU exposes statistics from the internal cache ECC, I wonder if you could use that as a rough radiation sensor?
And software and computing isn’t a big field? Ever heard of EE?
> the median European living standard

Care to elaborate? What is so significantly better in the US?
The moat could have nothing to do with the AI part. Examples:

- e-commerce app is a thin ChatGPT wrapper for the shopping experience but their moat is their products and supply chain details

- video game using LLM NPCs and other dynamic experiences but their moat is something else like incredible graphics or being based on some known IP

- any business based on curation or archival of past LLM responses or interactions, moat could be some quality of that particular data, like other data businesses
Games instead of 3D multiplayer slot machines
Lessons from Drunk Shenanigans in History
At this point, you would have a better chance of running your own apps by relocating to the EU ;)
If it was a large enough city, you could convincingly argue that there being no crime means crime prevention is massively overfunded and/or excessive in nature.
> And even assuming everything is good on that front, you're still looking at $300-400k in college tuition (in 2024 dollars) if you let your kids pick any school.

When people ask if I want a second kid I reply that my current child costs me around 64k a year and I cannot afford a second!

28k for a neighborhood daycare, 36k for college savings, and that is baseline before anything else.

College tuition is obscene.
New iPads won't include stickers in the box due to Apple's environmental goals
This is 2,100 lidar sensors. Not a very large number, the article speculates that it is for company-owned auto drive testbeds. I wonder if they are for the humanoid robots.
I'm very much aware of issues mistakes around memory can cause, and we use many tools (including different languages) to avoid them or verify code. My point is even taking that into account there's a long tail of unexplained issues.

And UB shouldn't be a scary thing 99% of the time, as you won't be hitting it anyway (or its actually the result of another real bug, like not handling overflows etc.), though as at some level you start trying on platform specific behavior and start /defining/ them. And again, there are tools and options around that, or highlighting areas where you might still be relying on them. They just might be toolchain and/or platform specific. It's never been the scary monster some online programming language fanatics seem to make it sound like, but is something to be aware of and managed.

And

> unless people are running very overclocked and unstable machines

Yes. Have you seen the Gamer Hardware Enthusiast community?
The users are the most valuable part.
Apple Platform Security – May 2024 Update
Given the easy availability of so many titles, we clearly need better ways to find what to read. We don't want to be at the mercy of big publishers' marketing machines telling us what to read. I spend a lot of time looking at Amazon and Goodreads recommendations, word of mouth, and books mentioned by authors I like, etc.
This is an absurd spin. Huawei and teg Chinese leadership more broadly knew what they were getting themselves into by using Google tech on their flagship phones. They decided it was worth it, until the US cut them off. They could have started work on this new OS at any point before that, or at any point in the future while also selling Android smartphones.

Having one less option is never a boon.
Well, if you randomly stroll through a busy street for no reason whatsoever, despite the real if small possibility this could kill you, then what else should I conclude?
Doesn’t that comic more closely hew to the idea that some fields are complete bullshit?
Make VST audio plugins in Lua with Protoplug
Thank you! Yes the app has bundled built-in llama.cpp binary with it. The app just launches the executable - nothing fancy. We are a little llama.cpp wrapper :)

It doesn't require Ollama, but if you have existing Ollama, it works with Ollama's API compatible layer https://recurse.chat/faq/#openai-chat-completion-models.
Why does she hate it if she is so efficient with it?
If inference on edge devices is their goal, then they would have to rethink their pricing on storage and RAM.
What's the story with Patrick Stewart touching the missile? Couldn't find anything about it on Google.
The distant future of generative AI is essentially a Star Trek holodeck.

As an intermediate step I can imagine a future VR headset that coupled to an AI accelerator that can output 8K per eye in real time based on the context of an entire novel, TV series, or collected extended universe works of fiction.
I got an iPad a couple of years ago, was really disappointed by the how limited it felt in what I could do. Not to mention the awful app store.
Be aware that iPhones degrade MMS more than necessary and the only reason seems to be to punish Android use.
Firefox has an implementation of WebGPU, why is Safari missing in action?
Wow, never knew.

I was always drooling over the hydlide3 box art used in ads of MSX magazines.

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/msx/935001-hydlide-3-the-space...

Such wow
No, zinccat, you are wrong. Your model is vastly inferior to GPT4.

I tried multiple prompts. In all cases, your model performed far worse. Here is one:

> My bank says they'll pay 5.5% APY. How much will I have after 6 months if I deposit $100?

< If your bank is offering a 5.5% APY (Annual Percentage Yield), this means that the interest is calculated annually. However, you want to know how much you'll have after 6 months, which is half a year.
...
100ata5.5102.75 after 6 months.
The Case for Getting Rid of Borders–Completely (2015)
Fuck them kids. It's delicious af.
Simple, because Nvidia can charge twice for the same GPU that way.

Building a cloud data center is cost first and then you earn money by rent.

But if you seel the GPU to a CSP then the cloud provider has the cost and needs to rent while you made immediately money on the GPU.

But what about getting paid continously? Well simple, the end customer is then cloud but the cloud customer. So develop a SW for your GPU which then has a license to it. So the end cloud customer will pay rent to the cloud provider and license fee to the GPU maker. That's Nvidia's business model for now.

Eventually, the demand for GPU sales will drop but by that time, Nvidia will have a large install base of end customers using their enterprise SW. Then Nvidia will start becoming a competitior to CSPs and will easily do so because they can deploy data centers at cost and give better pricing. But today, Nvidia needs the CSPs to spread their SW. The primary goal is to reach all the end customer via DGX cloud and to create mindshare and moats. CSPs are only a means to an end of Nvidia as they could easily out compete them on AI compute if Nvidia wanted to to.
facebook Warp speed Data Transfer transfers data as fast as possible
Ferengi Rules of Acquisition Number Ten
I suspect you’re projecting a lot of your personal beliefs on whatever you think I’m saying - I’m pointing out that a major casualty event in an extremely pivotal moment in a major US war was decided by a defending force in a city assault, which is what the parent article and quote is commenting about . I’d love to hear where in the parent comment you think is “hating” on Lee, unless you take the position that pointing out facts is “hate.” surely one can point out historical facts without writing an essay on military tactics on every other battle that happened during the civil war - surely you could agree?

I am well versed on this subject and would love a debate. curious you don’t mention fredericksburg because that would actually support whatever point you think you’re making.
I’d assume a lot of this is because you can’t get the software on MacOS. Not a choice. Who is choosing to use Windows 10/11 where you get tabloid news in the OS by default? Or choosing to hide the button to create local user accounts?
CEOs dont go to jail. If they do, its an exception that is not relevant to the game.
Interesting, microwaving with sound
Not with $140B in a country where literally everything is cheaper, and not when they know it can be done (and likely also have at least half the technical documentation). It won’t take a “decade”.
Your examples are strange as you're using rfc1918 addresses (i.e private range) rather than public ips. So all your examples are very odd.

10.7.7.7 will get dropped. This is correct behaviour based on the routing rules in your example. The VPN connection will stay up as it has a /32 route setup through the wlan0 interface.

What we're concerned about with TunnelVision is preventing LEAKS, this is what constitutes VPN security. If the DHCP server sends a route that forces traffic through the physical interface instead, then the best you can do is BLOCK it. If you really wanted to you could detect and remove the route, but that's a different question and still has nothing to do with the question we're concerned about which is plugging LEAKS.

Also why on earth are you using rfc1918 addresses as an example, it's more meaningful to be using public ip addresses - i.e the DHCP server pushes a 1.1.1.1/32 route. The issue with rfc1918 addresses is it's totally not clear if they will get routed at all as you didn't specify whether they're on-link or not as you didn't provide a subnet mask.

The rules are:
* an ALLOW rule on the vpn endpoint ip + a /32 route for the endpoint
* an ALLOW rule on tun0 traffic
* a BLOCK rule on EVERYTHING else - i.e just a iptables -I OUTPUT -j DROP

Can we please stop the back and forth now, it's really starting to chew up too much time. I don't want to have a conversation about the specific addressing scheme you're using - you should have used public ips to make things much clearer, i don't want a long argument now about subbets and whether certain addreses in your example are on-link or require a routing hop. This is so tiring. :)
TSMC is not the “West”. It could go away within a week once the festivities begin in earnest.
I have a addon that autoconverts imperial units. Your comment is the only thing peaking out of the insanity bubble. =)
There is a maximum. It's also the case that your social security income is capped, too. I think that a person earning a million dollars a year for 35 years doesn't look any different to social security than someone earning 200k a year for 35 years, because both are well over the income cap.

I haven't read any of the FIRE stuff, but I wonder if it ignores social security. I'd argue that you can't say you're Financially Independent if your early retirement planning is dependent on social security; it's your money (...right), but there are rules around it, and those rules change.
In Germany they're called "hofs" and incredibly common. Many apartments only have one view out over the hof, facing someone else's apartment 5m away. You get used to it.
Macbooks are not bang-for-buck. Most engineers I know buy it because it's like Windows but with Unix tools built-in.
FTA:

“I think you need a better system, and I think it’s probably going to be more like an apprenticeship or an internship, where you bring people on with a much easier filter at the beginning. And you hire them kind of on an experimental basis or on a training basis, and then you have to sort of see what they can do in the first month or two.”

Well, if he fucked it up, I don’t see any reason why his ideas can’t also fix it.
You may end up being a great film director in the near AI future thanks to your studies in psychedelia :) I'm most excited to see what people who would otherwise never make a film might come up with
I'm kinda doubtful it can run Windows 11 tho.
I would suggest you to check out Saner.ai -I'm building it to solve the context switching problem while taking note for ADHDer.
Plus it has a side panel note on chrome enabling you to take notes without switching tabs :)
https://saner.ai/
Tame toxic algorithms to protect children, big tech told
I don't believe you. Are you expecting to live to 100?
Memory corruptions can impact very differently. A sample of decoded music getting corrupted leads to a small glitch, maybe even inaudible. An instruction in executable code getting corrupted can leads to all sorts of havoc.

Since ECC is seemingly not getting mandatory, I've been wishing CPUs would support "soft-ECC". That is, the OS could mark certain pages as needing "soft-ECC", and the CPU would then store (at least) three copies of that page in RAM. When reading such pages back from RAM the CPU would read all physical copies and compare. If the majority agrees it can use that, otherwise raise an error.

This could then be used for executable pages and important configuration data which occupies relatively few pages, and where integrity matters a lot more than speed.

There's probably some good reasons why this is non-trivial to implement, I've forgotten most of what I learned about the virtual memory implementation in CPUs. But a man can dream...
you can make up some game which creates words the LLM has never seen before and assigns them meaning

Tracking these sorts of "X means Y" mappings is precisely what the Q-K-V matrix of a transformer (or rather, Schmidhuber Fast Weight Programmer) does. This particular capability isn't even learned -- it's programmed in by the human who wrote the model evaluation code!

Whatever we call it there clearly is some amount of emergent abstraction in the models

I really, genuinely question this. I see extremely-high-dimensional interpolation over an extremely large dataset. Take away the dataset and what's left is gradient descent. And the token embedding, I guess. I'm not sure how you would "unlearn" something (like King-Man+Woman=Queen) from the embedding, or even what that would mean.
Would you say that a discussion about GPU densities was an "extreme form of processing hipsterism"? Unless your contention is that there is no observable difference between the types of drinks described by OP, this comment is an embarrassing ad hominem and has no place here
Meh. I’ve met dozens like you. People who swear they just want to see “how you think.”

Then, in the post interview roundup we talk about the candidates and you’re a bit disheartened that they didn’t complete the exercise, so you give a pass even when every other person in the room gives a thumbs up.

Nah. Re evaluate yourself and your biases.
Previously [0] (34 points, 9 years ago, 14 comments)

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9923860
That is a well-researched and sobering article. Kept unfolding to reveal more nuances right up until the end. Listing exceptions carefully and why they are. I couldn't help thinking about comparisons with all artistic endeavours as income, especially music. I wondered if, given the software leanings of the average HackerNews participant, there is a general consensus here that art is now (mostly) in the hands of algorithms and programming, and therefore, somehow, now thought of (here) as a futile or at least an entirely pastime pursuit?
> no matter what specs you pick it will always be much more expensive than equivalent specs from a non-luxury provider

On the phone side, I guess you would call Samsung and Google luxury providers? On the laptop side there are a number of differentiating features that are of general interest.

> The things that Apple provides are not the headline stats that matter for a tool-user, they're luxury properties that don't actually matter to most people

Things that might matter to regular people (and tool users):

- design and build for something you use all day

- mic and speakers that don't sound like garbage (very noticeable and relevant in the zoom/hybrid work era)

- excellent display

- excellent battery life

- seamless integration with iPhone, iPad, AirPods

- whole widget: fewer headaches vs. Windows (ymmv); better app consistency vs. Linux

- in-person service/support at Apple stores

It's hard to argue that Apple didn't reset expectations for laptop battery life (and fanless performance) with the M1 MacBook Air. If Ryzen has caught up, then competition is a good thing for all of us (maybe not intel though...) In general Apple isn't bleeding edge, but they innovate with high quality, very usable implementations (wi-fi (1999), gigabit ethernet (2001), modern MacBook Pro design (2001), "air"/ultrabook form factors (2008), thunderbolt (2011), "retina" display and standard ssd (2012), usb-c (2016), M1: SoC/SiP/unified memory/ARM/asymmetric cores/neural engine/power efficiency/battery life (2020) ...and occasionally with dubious features like the touchbar and butterfly keyboard (2016).)
Their 2nd largest revenue source (at ... 20-25%, below only the iphone) is software services.

iCloud, App store revenue, apple tv, and so on
Political pandering? Or not giving tech to an arm of the CCP known to be accessing networks it helped build for mobile network?
Somewhat related talk: Modernizing Compiler Design for Carbon Toolchain - CppNow 2023 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZI198eFghJk)